Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Category: Philosophers | Science
Lived from: 1861-1947
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Every thing of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
British mathematician and philosopher 1861-1947
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